According to Yichang’s Investment Promotion Conference on Feb 3, so far 400 projects valuing hundred millions have been launched, attracting funds more than 150 billion yuan.Yichang is managing to sign another 400 contracts that worth more than hundred millions of each. Amid increasingly fierce competition, Yichang ensures the quantity and quality of investment with the spirit of self-pressurized to drive the economy on a stable journey, said Zhou Zhengyin, the vice mayor.

　　ZhouZhengyin reminded five points for the investment attraction. First, ensure our mission and make every endeavor to shoulder the responsibility to plan for it for those who are in charge of the investment attraction. Second, seize our goal and have insight in our project to ensure the success. Third, keep the focus in our mind. The key industries, investment region and attraction enterprises should be decided according to their local situations. Fourth, keep informed of the strategies for investment attraction. It’s beneficial for us to make friends with business partners to refine our policies, create opportunities and improve our work efficiency. Fifth, ensure the mechanism for investmentattraction. We will be informed the process once a month, have a signing every season, supervise our work half a year and exchange with others once a year.

　　It’s informed that Yichang will keep strategic emerging industries and the tertiary industry as our focus and work hard to promote investment attraction. we will also develop relevant industries such as electronic information, food and medicine, advanced manufacturing, airport economy and etc to enhance the main industries. The industry leading fund and industry supporting capital should be brought into play by increasing the support for our policy to boost investment. We will seize the opportunities of establishing Hubei Free Trade Zone in Yichang area, improve industrial planningand orientation of this area and speed up the construction of standard plant and living facilities. Various services will be improved to provide a qualified platform for receiving coastal industries. (Reporter Wang Ying, Xiong Donghua)